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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Neeka fear?
(a) Being beaten or raped.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Being arrested.
(d) Her mother finding out.

2. Who is Randall?
(a) Tash's piano teacher.
(b) Miss Irene's son.
(c) Tash's big brother.
(d) Neeka's boyfriend.

3. Why do some people take on D as a foster child?
(a) To make her work and keep the house.
(b) To abuse her.
(c) For the government benefits.
(d) As a live in babysitter.

4. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?
(a) She has to watch her two younger brothers.
(b) She was supposed to go to a birthday party that day.
(c) She was supposed to go to the movies with a boy that day.
(d) She does not feel well.

5. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?
(a) Church.
(b) A local nightclub.
(c) In his school orchestra.
(d) For his school chorus.

6. Why is Tash imprisoned?
(a) As an accomplice to assault and robbery.
(b) For assault on a police officer.
(c) For illegal drugs.
(d) As an accomplish to murder.

7. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?
(a) Because then her mother couldn't make her babysit.
(b) To show solidarity with Tash.
(c) She would be horrified to go to such a place.
(d) For some peace and quiet.

8. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?
(a) They are fogging up because he is crying.
(b) He doesn't wear glasses.
(c) So he cannot give them to Tash to make a knife out of.
(d) To go through the metal detector.

9. What does the narrator envy about Neeka?
(a) Her noisy family.
(b) Neeka's brilliance.
(c) Her family's money.
(d) Her perfect features.

10. What is behind the picture from the narrator's mother?
(a) 10 dollars.
(b) A letter to her daughter.
(c) A letter from her father.
(d) 20 dollars.

11. Who is Daneeka Lucy Jones?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Neeka.
(c) Neeka's sister-in-law.
(d) The narrator's sister-in-law.

12. What does the narrator say about D's mother?
(a) She is extremely black.
(b) She is French.
(c) She is white.
(d) She is strange.

13. Where do the girls make snow angels?
(a) In the grass by the bus stop.
(b) In the snow on the stage.
(c) They do not since the snow is not heavy enough.
(d) In front of their house on the sidewalk.

14. What happens after Tupac recovers from being shot?
(a) He moves to California.
(b) He decides to sue the girl who accuses him.
(c) He is sent to prison.
(d) He writes a rap song about racism and the justice system

15. What happens to the narrator and Neeka in May?
(a) They both turn 12.
(b) They both turn 16.
(c) They graduate from high school.
(d) They are arrested for loitering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jayjones say black men cannot be caught?

2. What is the narrator doing when she says she feels whole for the first time?

3. What does D say about a counselor's statement in a group home?

4. Why is the narrator hesitant about D's request?

5. Who is Flo?

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